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Published:Tuesday | June 8, 2010 | 6:28 PM

The secretary general of CARICOM, Edwin Carrington is hailing the region’s linkages with Canada.

Published:Tuesday | June 8, 2010 | 12:38 PM

Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has named July 9 as the date for the by-elections in two constituencies.

Published:Monday | June 7, 2010 | 12:52 PM

The St Lucian government says it’s confident that a re-drafted Labour Code will be presented to the Parliament by July.

Published:Monday | June 7, 2010 | 12:40 PM

Antigua’s Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has sent a letter to former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Patrick Manning, thanking him for his contribution to the region.

Published:Monday | June 7, 2010 | 12:39 PM

Normal operations have resumed at the Grantley Adams International Airport after air traffic controllers failed to turn up for duties on the weekend forcing the cancellation of some flights.

Published:Friday | June 4, 2010 | 5:26 PM

Antigua\'s opposition leader Lester Bird is seeking medical attention in the United States.

Published:Friday | June 4, 2010 | 5:26 PM

James Fletcher, the Director of Social Development in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is raising concern about the high incidence of drop outs and increasing repetition rates in Caribbean schools.

Published:Friday | June 4, 2010 | 11:01 AM

A senior police officer in Belize is to return to court on August 3 on a charge of attempted murder following a traffic incident in April.

Published:Thursday | June 3, 2010 | 6:11 PM

A Dutch national linked to the disappearance of American teenager, Natalee Holloway, in Aruba five years ago is now being sought in Chile in connection with the stabbing death of a Peruvian woman.

Published:Thursday | June 3, 2010 | 5:32 PM

A former official of Haiti\'s state-owned national telecommunications company has been sentenced to four years in US prison on charges related to a money laundering and bribery scheme.

Published:Thursday | June 3, 2010 | 11:35 AM

Grenada’s Police Commissioner James Clarkson has accused former Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell of manipulating police officers to provide him with private security even though he is aware they were violating the laws.

Published:Wednesday | June 2, 2010 | 6:02 PM

Cuba has begun transferring several of the country's 200 political prisoners to jails closer to their homes.

Published:Wednesday | June 2, 2010 | 6:00 PM

The political party of Suriname’s former dictator says it is close to teaming up with another party to form a coalition government.

Published:Wednesday | June 2, 2010 | 5:49 PM

The United States military has ended major relief operations in Haiti, five months after the devastating earthquake struck.

Published:Tuesday | June 1, 2010 | 6:02 PM

The Grenadian government says it hopes to begin talks shortly with Venezuela on a maritime boundary agreement, more than a month after it signed a similar accord with Trinidad and Tobago.

Published:Tuesday | June 1, 2010 | 1:22 PM

The law partner of Belize's Prime Minister, Dean Barrow, remains in a critical condition in hospital after he was shot last night.

Published:Tuesday | June 1, 2010 | 1:20 PM

The newly appointed Acting Commissioner of Police in St Lucia, Vernon Francois, has promised to put more police personnel on the streets, as the authorities move to quell an increase in murders and other criminal activities.

Published:Tuesday | June 1, 2010 | 12:22 PM

St Lucia's former police commissioner is to challenge the legality of his removal as the head of the force by Prime Minister Stephenson King.

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 6:31 PM

Cuban dissident group, Ladies in White, says the government in Havana has not yet released any political prisoners or improved jail conditions, as had been hoped following recent talks with church leaders.

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 6:30 PM

Bermuda's Premier, Ewart Brown, has reported a seven percent drop in visitor arrivals for the first quarter of this year.

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 12:55 PM

The Guyana government and main opposition have decided to make another attempt to hold long over due local government elections this year.

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 12:54 PM

St Lucia's Prime Minister Stephenson King has announced a major shake up of the police force, as part of new crime fighting measures.

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Days after leading the People's Partnership coalition to victory in the May 24 general election, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar on Friday revealed her 26-member Cabinet team...

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman Roosevelt Skerrit says the lesson for the region emerging out of the most recent violent Jamaica experience is that "everyone of us, individually and collectively...

Published:Monday | May 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

GUATEMALA CITY (AP):Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 hurricane season pounded Central America and southern Mexico on the weekend, triggering deadly landslides. The death toll stood at 16 yesterday, but authorities...

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